Writing about carrot juice yesterday reminded me of an email that was circulating the web a year or two ago. I happened to keep it, and posted it in my old Success Unwrapped membership area, so I found it again to share here:
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil.
In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you see.”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?”
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity — boiling water. Each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
“Which are you?” she asked her daughter.
“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?”
Think of this: Which am I?
Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity?
Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
You might want to send this message to those people who mean something to you; to those who have touched your life in one way or another; to those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whose friendship you appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.
May we all be COFFEE!!
The power to change the world we live in — to change our environments, in essence — truly lies within ourselves.
What’s the best way to “be” coffee?
A few days ago I wrote about Harmonic Ascension, the brainwave entrainment meditation audios created by our other partner, Jody Sachse.
You can find a lot of brainwave entrainment audios that sound like white noise, and are quite annoying to listen to. Sometimes when I’ve heard the other ones, I find my throat constricting and it’s hard to breathe. I wonder what exactly they’re forcing our brains to hear and react to.
But Harmonic Ascension audios actually sound good… and make me feel good, too. They’re the type of thing that sounds like it could be playing softly in the background as you get a massage or spa treatment at a fancy facility.
And they work… I’ve had profound visualizations and found myself in blissful physical states just by listening to the music-based meditation audios that Jody created.
In fact, our friend, Randy Fogg, healed himself physically after a tragic accident this summer where his bike got hit by a car — and he credits the Harmonic Ascension healing audios for that.
The reason I bring this up is, changing what goes on in your mind on a deep level — and hence changing your vibration — is a great way to “be coffee”, and get through adversity by changing your environment instead of becoming hard like an egg, or mushy like a carrot.
Okay, I admit it… I love eggs, and I love carrots (especially carrot juice) too. I also love coffee, and used to drink way too much of it, until Barry “forced” me (unwillingly at first, but now gratefully) to cut it almost completely out of my life… from numerous cups a day to maybe one cup a week, which I savor and be sure to completely enjoy.
But regardless of the relationships we have with these foods in the real world, the metaphor is very powerful.
Life comes at us hard, and reacting like eggs or carrots just doesn’t cut it.
So to prepare yourself to react “like coffee”… brainwave entrainment is a powerful way to go. But you might as well treat your brain to the best entrainment available — without the annoying noise and beeps, but with soothing soul-inspiring music and chants instead — and that’s Harmonic Ascension.
You can take a free membership or a cost-effective Premium one, and the selection of audios for different purposes is fantastic.
But best of all… Harmonic Ascension helps you get through life by being like coffee.
Keep Unwrapping the Mysteries of Life!
